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About Face
Zebra, Apr 2003, 7.99, 384 pp.
ISBN: 0821770209
Casey Edwards spent the last decade as a resident of a mental institution, but recently was released to wander Sweetwater, Georgia. Casey's memory before her confinement is limited, but she knows her former home is Swan House. She begins to walk home, but Dr. Blake Hunter sees her hiking and gives her a lift to the house where her mother Evie lives with John Worthington.
However, Casey's return...Crown Jewel
Atria, Jan 2004, 25.00
ISBN: 074345779X
In 1984 Hollywood, agent Philip “Philly” Lam forces his movie star younger brother Ricky “Platinum Boy” to give up the drugs and booze or their partnership would end. Philly worries what will become of Ricky so he forced the ultimatum of a detox for probably ninety plus days or his sibling is on his own.
Fifteen years later, Ricky is a matinee idol to millions and worth much more due to Philly's wise in...Family Blessings
Atria, Oct 2004, 18.00, 240 pp.
ISBN: 0743477472
In Larkspur, Pennsylvania, newlywed sisters Hannah and Sara believe their spouses are cheating on them as they work late every night. Actually colleagues Dr. Zack Kelly and Dr. Joel Wineberg are working together on a surprise to take a year off and sail with their beloved respective spouses Hannah and Sara; they just have not told them yet.
Meanwhile the third of the Cisco triplets (brother to ...Fool Me Once
Olivia was always told by her loving father that her mother passed away during her birth but one day a lawyer came knocking on her door to tell her she actually just passed away and left her a fortune with a confession. Her mother robbed a bank before she was even married and Olivia is to track down her mothers two college friends and make them confess to robbing the bank and then get them to return all the money that was stolen.
The first thing that ...

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Kentucky Heat
Kensington, May 2002, 24.00, 336 pp.
ISBN: 1575667622
Thoroughbred horse owner Nealy Coleman makes it clear that she will not tolerate any misbehavior when it comes to her beloved horses. She estranges herself from her two adult children after she believes their recent actions belie her basic tenet of life that the horses must come first. Thus, she fires Emmie and Nick, tossing them both off the farm.
Attorney Hatch Littletree visits Nealy's...Kentucky Rich
Kensington, Oct 2001, 24.00, 336 pp.
ISBN: 1575667614
Over thirty years ago, teenage Nealy Coleman fled her family Virginia home because she never felt welcome there and with an illegitimate infant she felt less welcome. Her father treated Nealy and her two brothers with abuse and contempt. For the next three decades, she never set foot on Coleman land, especially avoiding the SunStar thoroughbred farm. Nealy has become successful in thoro...Kentucky Sunrise
Kensington, Oct 2002, 24.00, 304 pp.
ISBN: 1575667630
Nealy Clay Littletree accompanied by her new husband Hatch, returns to Blue Diamond Farms, currently run by her daughter Emmie Coleman. However, Nealy is disappointed with the poor conditions of the horse farm and appalled over the thoroughbred chosen to represent Blue Diamond at the Derby. Being a half owner along with Emmie, Nealy begins efforts to invigorate Blue Diamond into her the oper...Late Bloomer
Atria, Feb 2003, 24.00, 352 pp.
ISBN: 0743457781
In 1981 Indigo Valley, Pennsylvania, on a dare from her friends, ten years old Cady Jordan sets off on her bike to do a stunt, but just before she begins, teenage bully Jeff King jumps on for the ride. However, someone slung cable across their path so when the bike hits the taut obstacle, the two kids fly through the air. Cady suffers a head injury leading to a loss of memory. Jeff dies from an...No Place Like Home
Pocket, Nov 2002, 6.99, 256 pp.
ISBN: 0743457951
Widower Jonathan Cisco becomes upset when his mother Loretta breaks her arm. With his mother suffering from a bad case of cataracts and some hearing problems, Jonathan moves the objecting Loretta into an assisted living facility in nearby Laurel Hills, Pennsylvania.
However, his three children (Sam, Hannah, and Sara), better known as the Trips as they are triplets, object. They feel their belo...Picture Perfect
Zebra, Feb 2005, 7.99, 384 pp.
ISBN: 082177588X
The FBI provides protection to Montclair College Professor Andrew Ryan from a drug cartel which killed a student named Jason Forbes. While Andrew and his spouse Sara head to Florida, her sister Lorrie takes their seven years old son Davey camping. Davy looks forward to the trip because his aunt allows his freedom to be himself while his mother disapproves of him perhaps because of his hemophiliac ...

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Pretty Woman
Rosie Gardener and Vickie Winters have always been the best of friends. Rosie even remembers how they faced the first day of school together. Fast forward through the years; Rosie and Vickie decided to start a small business based in Rosie's garage. A company called "Nature's Delight". Rosie and Vickie collected the unique and different weeds that grew in and around Savannah, Georgia and gathered them into planned arrangements. After ten years in busines...Texas Sunrise
Bille Coleman Kingsley had endured a lifetime of mistakes, oversights and sins, all of which formed to be the person she is now. She had had children, lost loves and run a successful business of her own. Unfortunately, she also had terminal cancer and family members who are as stubborn and hot-tempered as she is. She has only a limited amount of time to make things right and her husband, Thad Kingsley is determined to do everything he can to make this as...The Future Scrolls
Zebra, Sep 2003, 6.99, 304 pp.
ISBN: 0821775863
In 1200, God's messenger provides the predictions to a scribe. Upon completing the writings on scrolls, the scribe hands off the finished products to Doctore Alexander Mendeneres and his ancestors for safekeeping.
In the present, the modern day Alexander knows the world is in trouble because his wife Valerie has stolen the scrolls from their Argentina home. Valerie has taken them to Manhattan ...The Real Deal
Pocket, Aug 2004, 6.99
ISBN: 0743477448
After performing as a superstar in a male world, Quinn Star quit the old boy network because she could not crash through the glass ceiling. She blames much of her failure on her former lover and ex boss “Puff” Lapusky, who she felt held her back. Quinn enjoys teaching law at Georgetown and loves her fiancé Judge Alexander Duval, ironically nominated to be the next FBI Director.
For the first time in ov...Trading Places
Pocket, Jun 2003, 7.99
ISBN: 0743457943
A bust that goes bad leads to Atlanta police detectives Tom Madsen and Agnes Jade along with her K9 Gustav being ambushed. Tom dies and Agnes is hospitalized with severe wounds. Her friend Georgia Tech engineering Professor Dr. Alex Rossiter helps Agnes with her recovery including cleaning up her home which was the target of someone angrily searching for something.
Though released from the hospital, Ag...